WebSphere Integration User Group / Hursley Conference - 13th July 2011

The WebSphere Integration User Group (UK) committee invites you to their next UK User Group Meeting, which will be held on Wednesday, 13th July 2011 at IBM Hursley Laboratories, near Winchester, the home of IBM’s Messaging and ESB technologies.  Help us celebrate 100 years of IBM and 15 years of our User Group.
   
The WebSphere Integration UK User Group is an independent body made up of a governing committee of WebSphere Integration users. Our aim is to offer a forum for users to meet and learn from one another's experience as well as meet and learn from the WebSphere Integration product experts.
   
The formal part of the day starts at 10:00 with a keynote presentation on using WebSphere technologies for a Smarter and More Agile Business by Gerry Reilly, Director of IBM Messaging and Integration, at IBM Hursley Laboratories. This is followed by a case study of the use of WebSphere Integration to improve effeciency and reduce costs for Fire Services.
   
A short session to ask questions of the Hursley experts, and arrange contact sessions between attendees leads into lunch, where discussions can continue and you can continue to network.
 
This will be followed by a choice of four parallel streams, with the ability to mix and match between them.
    - Advanced WebSphere MQ stream
    - ESB stream  
    - Cloud
    - Business Process Management
   
Full Agenda:  http://www.mqug.org.uk/next_event/HursleyAgenda2011.pdf
   
The event is free, and includes a buffet lunch. To register for the meeting, visit the WebSphere Integration User Group web site and click on "Next Event", or use the quick link below. Registration is via email, with full instructions on the web page below.
   
Agenda, and conference registration:  http://www.mqug.org.uk/next_event/index.html

A bit like buses, you wait for one IBM Web Experience Factory item, and two ( or three ) come along at once ...

So, following my earlier post, I've just seen this nice and short video on YouTube

What's new in IBM Web Experience Factory V7.0.1 (in less than 3 mins)

with the lovely Adam Ginsburg. Definitely worth three minutes of your time ...

Announcing IBM Web Experience Factory 7.0.1

I saw this and thought of everyone who ever needs to develop a web / portal / mobile / rich-client / widget application ....

IBM Web Experience Factory 7.0.1, formerly IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory, delivers the fastest and easiest way to develop multichannel exceptional web experiences across desktop, mobile, and tablet platforms.

Key new features in Web Experience Factory 7.0.1 include:
    • Mobile and multi-channel support, with new builders, wizards, themes, and more
    • New IBM Web Content Manager builder allows easy integration of content and development of custom authoring interfaces
    • Improved end-user experiences with new builders such as Data Layout, Lazy Load, and Page Navigation
    • Improved development experience with new editing features and usability enhancements

The formal announcement is here and the Wiki article also has a link to a PDF document containing lots of shiny details about the new release.

The new product name is a little different but, to be fair, WebSphere Portlet Factory always undersold the tool, from the moment IBM acquired Bowstreet, as one could use it to develop non-portal web applications. Added to this, IBM then introduced the capabilities to develop rich-client applications ( to be run in Eclipse, Notes, Sametime etc. etc. etc. ) and widgets ....

So the name is different, but I'll get used to it :-)

Me, behind the curve again, congratulating the new IBM Champions for Lotus and IBM Collaboration Solutions

For various reasons, I've been off the net for much of this week, so haven't had the opportunity to pick up on this properly.

However, having had lunch with Sharon "Social Shazza" Bellamy yesterday, I wanted to write and add my, albeit belated, congratulations to Sharon and the rest of the newly minted IBM Champions.

Taking the list directly from Ed's blog, here we go:-

As has been oft-stated, one of the benefits of the social world is that one's network is much broader now, but I still don't yet know all of the people on this list - I'm working on it :-)

To paraphrase Bilbo Baggins, "...I don't know half of you half as well as I should like...".

Regardless, congratulations to you all, it's acclaim well deserved, and shows the real power of the IBM Lotus community.

*UPDATE* Here's a far better version of the list, with links to the Champions' profiles, which is nice :-)

Lotus Symphony 3 - Fixpack 2 Released - That's SO last two months

Somehow this passed me by completely back in April, but I noticed - this morning (!) - that IBM had released a fix pack for Lotus Symphony 3 back on April 20.

The announcement is here, and the code itself is available ( for Mac, Linux and Doze ) here.

It's applied on my Macbook Pro, so I'll see what, if any, difference it makes to my symphonious performance :-)

Aide Memoire - remembering how to identify which process is hogging which port

For some reason, I always forget this so am hoping that, by writing it down here in my blog, I'll actually remember.

Having run a command such as: -

$ netstat aon

or: -

$ netstat -nlp

to see that something is listening on port 80, it's then useful to see what the process actually is: -

$ lsof -i :80

or: -

$ lsof -i tcp:80

will show you the way to go.

lsof is an immensely useful command, as blogged here.

Perhaps I should use this as a future tip if I'm ever invited back to @ThisWeekInLotus.

IBM Connections 3 and WebSphere Portal 7 together

I haven't yet had a chance to try this, but I've been pointed at a particular WebSphere Portal fix, PM37733, which may help improve the performance of the portlets that are available in the Catalog which provide integration from IBM Connections to WebSphere Portal.

This fix is available via Fix Central, and is included with Cumulative Fix 004 ( CF004 ), as per this link.